Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, February 12
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9:03 AM CST on February 12, 2020
- After spike in CTA violence, CPD adding 50 officers to trains and platforms March – May (Tribune)
- Woman, 70, dies after fleeing rear-end crash, crashing a 2nd time in Gurnee (Sun-Times)
- Ex-CDOT chief Scheinfeld named CEO of Civic Consulting Alliance (Sun-Times)
- Strategies to help keep new amenities like The 606 from causing housing displacement (NPQ)
- Here are affordable, transit-friendly neighborhoods you can move to and/or gentrify (Curbed)
- An update on efforts for more frequent affordable Metra, Meeting this Thursday (Active Trans)
- Steelworker history bike tour takes place in NW Indiana April 4 and May 2 (NWI.com)
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